Introduction • The ADNOM Project/Workshop • ADNOM core system and operational network – TMRAP, eb. XML • Impact that ADNOM might going to have • How to make it a long term network 2

What is ADNOM? • a CEN/ISSS [1] workshop funded by EC • infrastructure based on open standards, facilitating the access to information about high quality terminology resources in the public domain. • key deliverable is partly a specimen and partly an initiation of an infrastructure. • It is intended to provide assistance to the European citizen in general and administrations in particular in finding multilingual information. It will be developed to facilitate e. Government interaction • [1] CEN = Comité européen de normalisation (European Committee for Standardisation) • ISSS = Information Society Standardisation System 3

Requirements ADNOM network • Multilingual – Both in thesauri and user interface • Ease of use – Easy querying and deliver high quality results – Additional data and expansions of the framework have to be integrated easily • Avoid dangers on the road like property rights, ownership • Recognition – The ADNOM network needs European wide recognition as a high quality resource 5

Little background. . • Begin 2005 SKI-MAPS project EC proposal – Seamless Knowledge for Government – Published subjects repository offering services for automated discovery of such identifiers. – Conclusion, Ontopia, Morpheus, Keytempo • This made it that – The authors became involved in the team – And that ADNOM became Topic Maps based 6

ADNOM’s contribution for Topic Maps Community • use and extend OASIS PSI sets • Broad scale exposure in Europe • Funding for large scale project? – One of goals is to get a registry for PSI sets 16

What impact ADNOM might have • Some e. Governmental circles – e. Government Focus Group – Presidencies UK, Austria • Initiatives around eb. XML • In Brussels there are rumours … • Governmental organisations in Europe as audience might have an important impact on all Topic Maps activities – The same as DARPA had for DAML – OWL? • Lot of TM-based projects have been rejected at EC before 17

Promote the following • European Conference: the communicative Government, 1 December, Brussels A comparative analysis of terminology systems and projects improving transparency and effectiveness of government administrations in the European Union • How to explain/illustrate the idea of things like TMRAP to Ministers? 18